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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 444912" data-attributes="member: 378"><p>I also like a good <strong>hot</strong> fence. When I started out with cattle a few years back I made the fence 2 strands of barbed and 2 strands of hot. A very hot fence works so well and the cattle respect it enough that I now just build new fence with 3 strands of hot wire, but only the top two are hot.... they know they will suffer the wrath if they touch the wire. For hot wire I used the hot string with wire woven in, it's much easier to tighten when it sags. I would just run 2 hot wires around your wood fence, one on top and just under the lower board. These days there is no need to worry about grass fires from fence and weeds or shorts in fence from mild weed growth.</p><p></p><p>I had a problem with my ground a couple of years ago, I drove in 3 ground rods, connected them together with wire. To drive them I dug a small hole for each, soaked the ground, used a T- post driver to drive them as far as possible, then finished driving with a sledge. I will admit that on one I cheated, the last couple of feet I hit hard pan clay, so I could not get the last 18" of rod in. I dug a trench about 18" deep and bent the rod into the trench and connected it to the other rods and buried it. Ground and hot fence work great.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Alan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan, post: 444912, member: 378"] I also like a good [b]hot[/b] fence. When I started out with cattle a few years back I made the fence 2 strands of barbed and 2 strands of hot. A very hot fence works so well and the cattle respect it enough that I now just build new fence with 3 strands of hot wire, but only the top two are hot.... they know they will suffer the wrath if they touch the wire. For hot wire I used the hot string with wire woven in, it's much easier to tighten when it sags. I would just run 2 hot wires around your wood fence, one on top and just under the lower board. These days there is no need to worry about grass fires from fence and weeds or shorts in fence from mild weed growth. I had a problem with my ground a couple of years ago, I drove in 3 ground rods, connected them together with wire. To drive them I dug a small hole for each, soaked the ground, used a T- post driver to drive them as far as possible, then finished driving with a sledge. I will admit that on one I cheated, the last couple of feet I hit hard pan clay, so I could not get the last 18" of rod in. I dug a trench about 18" deep and bent the rod into the trench and connected it to the other rods and buried it. Ground and hot fence work great. Alan [/QUOTE]
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